The One Crime White Men Were Punished For, But Black Men Never Were

White Children Mattered, But Black Kids Didn’t

Estelle de Barescut, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

The British Crown established that fathers should be responsible for their children, even their illegitimate ones. This was to prevent The Crown from bearing the financial burden of raising children who ended up in the poor house. This tradition was passed on to the…